Today's promise: God is always fair and
just
Do You Understand
Justice?
Evil people don't
understand justice, but those who follow the Lord understand completely.
Proverbs 28:5 NLT
Awareness of justice
Justice means
righteousness, lawfulness, and moral rightness, the quality of being true or
correct, the moral principle determining just conduct. So justice has a moral
quality. It contains a concept of what is right and, therefore, must also have
a concept of what is wrong. Only people who understand these concepts of right
and wrong can understand and administer justice. By extension, only those who
follow the Lord can understand justice. Why? Because they subscribe to the
foundational laws of the one who created them.
Thus, as this proverb
points out, evil people don't understand justice. Because they refuse to
subscribe to justice's moral underpinnings given by God in his Word, they are
left to discover their own truths. As a result, many conclude that there is no
truth. Others conclude that everyone can have different truths. Both
perspectives are hopelessly doomed. And as a building without a foundation will
crumble, so justice can never be served without the foundation of right and
wrong as given by God in his Word.
WISE WAYS What are you using for your
foundation? Where do you get your concept of truth, of right and wrong?
Today, Lord, teach me
the foundational truths about life that are given in your Word.
Adapted from The One Year® Book of Proverbs, by Neil S.
Wilson, Tyndale House Publishers (2002), entry for February 28
Children are innocent
and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G K CHESTERTON
G K CHESTERTON
Delay of justice is
injustice.
WALTER S LANDOR
WALTER S LANDOR
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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